Archives - 15 March 2013, Friday

Welcome to the Bitcoin revolution, there’s no going back now By Michael Carney On March 15, 2013 I’ve been aware of Bitcoins for a few years now and have been generally curious about the concept. Lately, though, I’m being bombarded with information on it. For the uninitiated, Bitcoin ...

Here’s an interesting experiment, and a first of its kind at least to our knowledge: Finnish HTML5 software developer SC5 has started providing employees with the option to have a part of their salary paid in the decentralized peer-to-peer currency Bitcoin (via Hacker News ). SC5′s Ma...

We have started to provide our employees with the option to have a part of their salary paid in the peer-to-peer currency Bitcoin. We are doing this just out of curiosity to try out new things. Bitcoin as such fits our vision of the world quite well. It allows for open source developm...

Bitcoin has been on a tear this year. The virtual currency, which is exchanged anonymously via an online peer-to-peer network, might be starting to go mainstream , as the recent announcement that Silicon Valley Bank will hold Bitcoin deposits suggests. And while there has been a lot o...

"..very few valuable services take them.." At the moment. Necessity will drive demand, Bitcoin is still about 5 minutes ahead of the mainstream. It is only a beginning, decentralized currency creating mechanisms with no central manipulation are the future this is just the beginning. U...

I need someone to edit a source code for a bitcoin miner (you can choose any, must support GPU mining / be a windows executable) You can find source code for miners from here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=42.0 There are multiple sources available in different languages (pic...

Bitcoin Tipper allows you to create a bitcointipper account, deposit bitcoins in it , and then send the bitcoins to another Twitter user. When a Twitter user recieves bitcoin , a bitcointipper account will be automatically created for them.They can leave the bitcoins in their account ...

The innovation continues, and this idea is pretty cool. Those of you who are members of the Bitcoin sub-reddit are likely quite familiar with the Bitcointip bot that lets you tip commenters with Bitcoins. The program monitors comments in a limited number of sub-reddits and processes s...

Here’s an interesting experiment, and a first of its kind at least to our knowledge: Finnish HTML5 software developer SC5 has started providing employees with the option to have a part of their salary paid in the decentralized peer-to-peer currency Bitcoin (via Hacker News ). SC5′s Ma...

Reporting from Santiago, Chile Earlier in the week , I wrote to you about an Argentine car rental agency that had started accepting Bitcoins as a means to bypass local capital controls. We received a lot of questions about the article, the most common of which was “What in the world i...

I recently had a fascinating chat with the economist Peter Šurda to discuss how nonpolitical cryptocurrencies like bitcoin could alter the future of fractional reserve banking . Peter is also a software developer experienced in the online payments industry and will present at the Bitc...

It's been less than 24 hours since the Twitter-based service Bitcoin Tipper launched and President Barack Obama has already collected $18.96. That's the beauty of the new service from programmer Marcus Yearwood which allows Twitter users to seamlessly gift Bitcoins, a digital currency...

If we were to invent money from scratch using all the knowledge available today, we could hardly do better than something like bitcoin. It's better than cash in several important ways: it's unforgeable, it's international, it's inflation-proof, and it has quick, cheap money transfer b...

Here’s an interesting experiment, and a first of its kind at least to our knowledge: Finnish HTML5 software developer SC5 has started providing employees with the option to have a part of their salary paid in the decentralized peer-to-peer currency Bitcoin (via Hacker News ). SC5′s Ma...

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In an attempt to pursue terrorists across the globe, the Obama administration has proposed legislation that will give spy agencies access to citizens' finances. Currently, the FBI is the only agency that has access to these databases, but the plan will give the CIA and NSA the same ac...

Be prepared for the next great transfer of wealth. Buy physical silver and storable food . goldsilverbitcoin.com / by zapata / March 15, 2013 Bitcoin has gone parabolic in the Headlines. Perhaps it is because of Bitcoins recent rise of over 200% percent since September of 2011. To be ...